North American F-82 Twin Mustang
WW2 Fighter

The North
American F-82 or "Twin Mustang" was the last piston engined
fighter built for the United States Air Force, a major
re-design on the successful
P-51 Mustang
fighter it was designed as a long range escort fighter but
is best known in it's later acquired night-fighter role. The
F-82 never saw action in WW2, the Japanese surrender, as a
result of the nuclear bomb, coming as a surprise to most if
not all aircraft designers and Air Force procurement
officers because of the high level of secrecy surrounding
the Atomic bomb.

Many perceived important projects like that
of an escort fighter became redundant, however a replacement
for the P-61 Black
Widow night fighter was required and the North American
F-82 or "Twin Mustang" filled this role very well serving up
to and including the Korean War where the first three North
Korean aircraft destroyed by U.S. forces were shot down by
F-82 "Twin Mustangs".

The F-82
remained in service in Korea until 1951 after which it was
replaced by the F-94 Starfire jet fighter. The remaining
F-82's served their last two years of active service in
their designed role of escort fighters operating out of
Alaska in support of Convair B-36 bombers long Arctic
flights until most were scraped at their Alaska bases in
1953.

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a North American F-82 Twin Mustang has been digitally
re-mastered from a USAF picture and they should be credited wherever it
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